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NITE STATES PATENT Fries,

MARIE MELINA LAMONTAGNE, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

COUGH REMEDY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,132, dated February10, 1885.

Application filed August 16, 1884. (N0 specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARIE Mi'lLINA LA- MONTAGNE, wife of Charles EdouardBrien dit Desrochers, residing in the city of Montreal, in the Districtof Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented a new anduseful medical composition of matter to be used as a remedy for colds,coughs, bronchitis, whooping-cough, and other similar diseases of theorgans of respiration; and I hereby declare that the following is aclear, full, and exact description of the same.

My medical composition of matter is corn-- posed of the followingingredients, mixed in the manner and proportions hereinafter stated,viz: honey, eight pounds; Water, one gallon; spruce-gum, one pound,dissolved in alcohol or high-wines, 1 gallon; olive-oil, one-halfgallon; spirit of peppermint ad libitum.

To prepare my medical composition of matter, first boil the eightpounds-of honey in one 7 gallon of water until it becomes as thick as apreservingsir-up, then let it cool. At the sametime dissolve thespruce-gum (one pound) in the alcohol or high-wines (one gallon) andstrain it to separate the impurities; add spirit of peppermint to givesufficient flavor, then mix all these ingredients and add half a gallonof good olive-oil; shake when cold, and the compound is ready for use.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is

The herein-described medical compound or composition of matter, to beused as a remedy for the diseases of the organs of respiration,consisting of honey, water, spruce-gum dissolved in alcohol, olive-oil,and spirit of peppermint, in the above-stated proportions.

Signed at Montreal this 11th day of August, Q

MARIE MEMNA LAMONTAGNE. In presence of- J. Bnossorr, A. BRUNEAUJ

